Robert van Voren
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Robert van Voren (publishing pseudonym of Johannes Baks,[1] Dutch: Johannes Bax,[2] born 25 July 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[3]) is a Dutch human rights activist,[4] sovietologist and historian.[5]
Robert van Voren | |
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Johannes Bax | |
Born | (1959-07-25) July 25, 1959 (age 64) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Citizenship | Canada, Netherlands, Lithuania |
Alma mater | Amsterdam University |
Known for | his Russian studies, human rights activism and participation in struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union |
Awards | from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for his work as a human rights activist; Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health, 2022. |
Scientific career | |
Fields | political science, psychiatry |
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Website | robertvanvoren |
He is a professor of Soviet and post-Soviet studies in the Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania)[6] as well as a visiting professor at University of Silezia, Katowice, Poland. He is also Chief Executive of the international foundation Human Rights in Mental Health-Federation Global Initiative on Psychiatry and Executive Director of the Andrei Sakharov Research Center for Democratic Development at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania.